Cities in contemporary Europe / edited by Arnaldo Bagnasco ,Patrick Le Gales

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Cambridge:Description: ix,: 219 pISBN:

9780521664882

Subject(s):

Cities and towns- -- Europe. Cities and towns -- Europe

DDC classification:

307.76094 CIT

Contents:

European cities: local societies and collective actors? / Arnaldo Bagnasco and Patrick Le Galès -- European cities in world economy / Pierre Veltz -- Spatial images of European urbanisation / Giuseppe Dematteis -- Segregation, class and politics in large cities / Edmond Preteceille -- Social structures in medium-sized cities compared / Marco Oberti -- Different cities in different welfare states / Juhani Lehto -- Social movements in European cities: transitions from the 1970s to the 1990s / Margit Mayer -- The construction of urban services models / Dominique Lorrain -- Private-sector interests and urban governance / Patrick Le Galès.

Summary: European cities are at the centre of social, political and economic changes in Western Europe. This book proposes a new research agenda in urban sociology and politics applying primarily to European cities, in particular those that together make up the urban structure of Europe: a fabric of older cities of over 100,000 inhabitants, regional capitals and smaller state capitals. The contributors develop an analytical framework which views cities as local societies, and as collective factors and site for modes of governance. The three parts of the book examine the economics of cities, the social structures, and the modes and processes of governance. Each chapter comprises a comparison across several countries and examines critically the book's central theoretical perspective. This is not a book about the making of a Europe of cities but rather about how some cities can take advantage of their changing global and European environment.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Library, SPAB E-2	Non Fiction	307.76094 CIT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		006200

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Collection subset: Social Welfare

European cities: local societies and collective actors? / Arnaldo Bagnasco and Patrick Le Galès --
European cities in world economy / Pierre Veltz --
Spatial images of European urbanisation / Giuseppe Dematteis --
Segregation, class and politics in large cities / Edmond Preteceille --
Social structures in medium-sized cities compared / Marco Oberti --
Different cities in different welfare states / Juhani Lehto --
Social movements in European cities: transitions from the 1970s to the 1990s / Margit Mayer --
The construction of urban services models / Dominique Lorrain --
Private-sector interests and urban governance / Patrick Le Galès.

European cities are at the centre of social, political and economic changes in Western Europe. This book proposes a new research agenda in urban sociology and politics applying primarily to European cities, in particular those that together make up the urban structure of Europe: a fabric of older cities of over 100,000 inhabitants, regional capitals and smaller state capitals. The contributors develop an analytical framework which views cities as local societies, and as collective factors and site for modes of governance. The three parts of the book examine the economics of cities, the social structures, and the modes and processes of governance. Each chapter comprises a comparison across several countries and examines critically the book's central theoretical perspective. This is not a book about the making of a Europe of cities but rather about how some cities can take advantage of their changing global and European environment.

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